Planning
and Leading Productive Meetings
Poor meetings cause…
Bad decision-making, lack of employee buy-in, and conflict.
Avoid the pitfalls poor meetings can cause with Planning and
Leading Productive Meetings.
Planning and Leading Productive Meetings focuses
on the organizational and interpersonal skills you will need to
lead highly productive meetings. You will see how these skills
apply to routine staff meetings, cross-functional or problem-solving
meetings, impromptu get-togethers, and more formal information
sharing.
Despite new ways of working and virtual ways of communicating,
the traditional meeting continues to dominate the workplace. Planning
and Leading Productive Meetings addresses the meeting
challenges of this new work environment, and offers both leaders
and participants an abundance of tools and techniques to transform
their meetings into valuable and productive work.
You’ll learn how to assess the quality of meetings in your
organization so you can understand their true cost. The benefits
of successful meetings are better decision-making, broader buy-in,
and clear conflict and problem resolution. In short, more effective
meetings make your organization more productive!
This course gives substantial attention to the key role of the
meeting leader, offering practical guidance on how to develop
the proper mindset, manage the process, and use the best decision-making
tools and facilitation skills. It also covers in full detail the
dynamic issues of planning, conducting, follow-up, and meeting
evaluation, with special attention paid to group dynamics and
the effective use of media tools.
Topics Covered:
- What Meetings Can Accomplish
- Staff Meetings, Project Teams, Cross-Departmental Meetings,
Problem-Solving Meetings, Information Sharing, Combination Meetings,
and Impromptu Meetings
- Meeting Challenges for the 21st Century
- What Is the Quality of Meetings in Your Organization?
- The True Cost of Meetings
- An Expensive Resource
- How to Decide if a Meeting is Necessary
- Preparing to Be the Meeting Leader
- Preparing for a Meeting
- Conducting the Meeting
- Effective Decision-Making in Meetings
- Guidelines for Gaining Consensus
- Facilitation Skills Every Meeting Leader Must Have
- How to Handle a Challenging Group
- Meeting Follow-Up and Action Planning
- Effective Uses of Media
About the Author
Jeffery H. Davis is the founder and owner of Organization
Renewal Associates, a consulting and training company
in Littleton, Massachusetts that specializes in improving
workplace communication, coaching and teamwork, and
other means of achieving organizational effectiveness.
He is also affiliated with the University of Massachusetts,
Donahue Institute, serving state government and other
public sector organizations with state-of-the-art
training and consulting.
Course Objective: To learn the organizational
and interpersonal skills needed to lead all types
of meetings productively.
Level: Fundamentals
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